Blazers-jazz

Thursday's notebook

May 22, 1992

BLAZERS-JAZZ: If hot-shooting Portland guards Terry Porter and Clyde Drexler aren't stopped in Game 3 tonight at Salt Lake City, Utah's first adventure into the third round of the playoffs may end quickly. ''When you're on a roll like that, the confidence level is hard to shut off,'' Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said Thursday.

Porter had 41 points and Drexler 36 on Tuesday, helping Portland to a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. ''This is gut-check time for us, but during the whole course of the year we've had adversity and we've responded well,'' Utah's Karl Malone said.